I am preparing a workshop on video storytelling for some of my students — and that brought me to revisit this video I made for a conference I could not attend last year. It’s getting old in the sense that more alternatives are now available but still a pretty good wrap:

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I produced this video in lieu of appearing on a panel that I was unable to attend at the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course in in Warwick, RI, in March 2011, considering tech concerns for educators teaching photojournalism students. Related links are below.

Gorillapod - iPhone Tripod Holder - Photojoj iPhone telephoto lens - Eye-Fi cards - Virgin Mobile MiFi hub - Zoomit - Posterous.com

A crowd watches children singing on the 2100 square-foot video wall during the Comcast Holiday Spectacular at The Comcast Center in Philadelphia last night. A few blocks away last week, we dropped in on an older Philadelphia tradition, the Holiday Light Show at Macy’s, seen below.

Photos by Jim MacMIllan ©2011

Installation is underway on the Grumman Greenhouse outside the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. ©2011 Jim MacMillan jim@jimmacmillan.com

Admirers of Steve Jobs have been leaving remembrances on sticky notes on the front of the Apple Store on Walnut Street in the Center City section of Philadelphia, seen in these photo take Saturday. Others have left flowers and at least one early Apple computer. ©2011 Photos by Jim MacMillan

The PNBR website says their annual event is “about riding together to promote fuel conscious consumption, positive body image, and cycling advocacy.” http://www.phillynakedbikeride.org/